to talk about something new, you need to have something new to talk about
i dont think that scala or clojure have lost momentum
i think both clojure and scala, stopped adding new features that are worthy of blogging about
you cant just add feature, just to keep people talking about you
clojure, is what it is, a nice language, a very smart leader (rick hickey), and a nice vibrant community (check #clojure on twitter)
the most talked about language nowadays is actually c++, and i think this mainly because they suddenly decided to have a very ambitious roadmap, and keep adding features, so there is always something new to talk about
does this make c++ better than clojure, well, i dont think they are even comparable, but it just make c++ more talked about than clojure
>>i dont think that scala or clojure have lost momentum i think both clojure and scala, stopped adding new features that are worthy of blogging about
More like Clojure is in Cathedral mode of open source development. Most of the development is in private discussions, implementation and prototyping at Cognitect, and once they have something to share, they release it to the world.
That's more a communication and marketing thing. For example, you can try Googling but you won't be able to see anything on the Clojure roadmap. No one knows what's the plan even year or two from now.
But thanks to smart leadership, and brilliant development team they have, its mostly a non issue if you don't really care about the everyday minutiae. You can bet the top dollar that they are working on something good, and it will be eventually released to the world.
To people coming from other open source tools, that can sound as strange.
i dont think that scala or clojure have lost momentum i think both clojure and scala, stopped adding new features that are worthy of blogging about
you cant just add feature, just to keep people talking about you
clojure, is what it is, a nice language, a very smart leader (rick hickey), and a nice vibrant community (check #clojure on twitter)
the most talked about language nowadays is actually c++, and i think this mainly because they suddenly decided to have a very ambitious roadmap, and keep adding features, so there is always something new to talk about
does this make c++ better than clojure, well, i dont think they are even comparable, but it just make c++ more talked about than clojure